Comments on: Machine learning http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/12/03/machine-learning/ The blog of John D. Cook Sat, 31 Jul 2010 07:45:27 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Karl Ove Hufthammer http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/12/03/machine-learning/comment-page-1/#comment-10521 Karl Ove Hufthammer Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:01:33 +0000 http://www.johndcook.com/blog/?p=1019#comment-10521 One of the fortune cookies in R (package ‘fortunes’, fortune 50) has this quote: To paraphrase provocatively, ‘machine learning is statistics minus any checking of models and assumptions’. – Brian D. Ripley (about the difference between machine learning and statistics) useR! 2004, Vienna (May 2004) One of the fortune cookies in R (package ‘fortunes’, fortune 50) has this quote:

To paraphrase provocatively, ‘machine learning is statistics minus any checking of models and assumptions’.
– Brian D. Ripley (about the difference between machine learning and statistics)
useR! 2004, Vienna (May 2004)

]]> By: Brendan O'Connor http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/12/03/machine-learning/comment-page-1/#comment-10487 Brendan O'Connor Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:58:56 +0000 http://www.johndcook.com/blog/?p=1019#comment-10487 hah! hah!

]]> By: Daniel Lemire http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/12/03/machine-learning/comment-page-1/#comment-10485 Daniel Lemire Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:58:04 +0000 http://www.johndcook.com/blog/?p=1019#comment-10485 The main difference is that statistics was designed for an age where having 30 samples was a lot. Machine Learning copes with millions of samples. I do multidimensional analysis (OLAP) and deal with billions of samples. Guess who is on top of the food chain! Me! ;-) The main difference is that statistics was designed for an age where having 30 samples was a lot. Machine Learning copes with millions of samples. I do multidimensional analysis (OLAP) and deal with billions of samples.

Guess who is on top of the food chain! Me! ;-)

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